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face of liglit brown ; feathers of the bach, wing-coverts, 

 secondaries, and tertials, a speckled mixture of black and dark 

 brown on pale brown ; wing-primaries light chesnut brown, 

 barred and speckled with darker brown ; the second quill- 

 feather the longest, and the wing when closed reaching a little 

 beyond the end of the tail ; upper surface of tail-feathers the 

 same colour ; feathers of the breast and belly a mixture of 

 greyish white and pale brown, Avith longitudinal streaks of 

 umber brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts uniform pale 

 brown ; under surface of tail-feathers greyish white, with nar- 

 row transverse bars of dusky brown ; legs and toes covered 

 with short uniform pale brown feathers ; the extreme ends of 

 the anterior toes bare ; claws rather long, curved, very sharp 

 and black. 



M, Temminck says the females have the throat white ; 

 but I think not till after their first moult, or even later. 

 I have not observed much difference in the sexes either in 

 colour or size. 



The whole length is from fourteen to fifteen inches. 



The vignette represents the orifice of the ear in this spe- 

 cies, from the w^ork of Mr. Macgillivray on the Rapacious 

 Birds of Great Britain. 



